{"id":1839,"date":"2005-09-12T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/12\/brown-resigns\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T20:00:49","slug":"brown-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Brown Resigns and it finally begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FEMA Director Michael Brown <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=578&#038;u=\/nm\/20050912\/pl_nm\/brown_dc_5\">has resigned from his position<\/a><\/strong>, amidst all the controversy and criticism of his handling of the Katrina aftermath. And of course <em>it finally begins,<\/em> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/09\/12\/roberts.ap\/index.html\">Roberts&#8217; confirmation hearing<\/a><\/strong> officially started today. The members of the Judiciary Committee did their little opening statements, formally introduced Roberts, and read off the &#8220;rules&#8221; when it comes to asking judicial nominees questions, and how much&#8211;if at all&#8211;should the nominee divulge when it comes to his\/her personal views, blah, blah, boring. Roberts was sworn in and did his own little opening speech.  Just as a reminder (and a &#8220;duh&#8221; moment) if confirmed Roberts would succeed Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  This should be fun to watch&#8230;and maybe a little bit scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEMA Director Michael Brown has resigned from his position, amidst all the controversy and criticism of his handling of the Katrina aftermath. And of course it finally begins, and Roberts&#8217; confirmation hearing officially started today. The members of the Judiciary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katrina","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}